Ärtsoppa - Slow Cooker Yellow Pea Soup

🍲 Slow Cooker Recipe

Ingredients

500 grams dried yellow peas
500 grams salted pork loin
1 tablespoon thyme
1 tablespoon marjoram
2 cubes beef stock
1 carrot, peeled and sliced or grated
1 onion, chopped
1.5 liters water
Mustard (the grainy kind, to taste, when served)

Directions

If preferred, fry the onion first. Place all ingredients in a slow cooker, and set to High for 8 hours.

My Notes

I used dried split yellow peas, not whole ones. I used an onion I had already sautéed ahead of time, double the amount of carrots, and about 6 slices of already-cooked smoked bacon instead of pork loin. Also, based on some other recipes I’d seen, I added in 2 bay leaves, 1 teaspoon of powdered ginger, and 4 juniper berries. (instead of the allspice berries I’d seen mentioned). This took 7 hours on High in my slow cooker. I was expecting to have to thicken it with a hand blender, but it seemed to have the right consistency already.